Alive and Well Organic Gardening

With our pruning practices, we aim to retain the long-term health and beauty of trees and shrubs. Instead of wielding our blades to control ‘unruly’ plants, we work with the natural form of the plant. The owner of Alive and Well Organic Gardening, Laura Ralph, is an Int’l Society of Arborists Certified Arborist (cert # PN-6420A) and is committed to providing up-to-date tree care services. Highlights of our pruning services include the following:

• Train young trees to establish a strong and healthy framework.
• Selective removal of dead, diseased, damaged, or weakly attached branches.
• Selective removal of branches to increase light penetration and air movement through crown.
• Restoration pruning to improve structure of trees and shrubs that have been pruned poorly in the past.
• We never top trees because it leads to ugly unsafe trees.
• Hand-shearing of formal hedges.
• Pruning of flowering shrubs.
• Fruit tree pruning to promote healthy yield.
• Pruning of vines.